ORIGINAL: Roskoe

I recently picked up a used 7 Rem Mag really reasonable, and decided to load up some hunting ammunition for my 13 year old son. Last year, he hunted with a 7MM-08 that was fitted with a 25" #4 Douglas barrel. We shot 150 gr. Swift Scirocco bullets at a little over 2700 fps. I decided to try a starting load of a certain powder with this same bullet in the 7MM Rem Mag, and low and behold it was going almost exactly the same velocity as full throttle ammunition in the 7MM-08. The guns are both Remington 700's, both weigh almost the same, and both have Simm's recoil pads.

Any opinions on which onekicks less? It takes more grains of powderto make the speed in the reduced load 7 Rem Mag, but the pressure is quite a bit lower than full throttle loads out of the 7MM-08.